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Gonzalez-Gomez N, O'Brien F, Harris M. The effects of prematurity and socioeconomic deprivation on early speech perception: A story of two different delays. Dev Sci 2020; 24:e13020. [PMID: 32687657 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Revised: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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There is evidence showing that both maturational and environmental factors can impact on later language development. On the one hand, preterm birth has been found to increase the risk of deficits in the preschool and school years. Preterm children show poorer auditory discrimination, reading difficulties, poor vocabulary, less complex expressive language and lower receptive understanding than their matched controls. On the other hand, socioeconomic status (SES) indicators (i.e., income, education and occupation) have been found to be strongly related to linguistic abilities during the preschool and school years. However, there is very little information about how these factors result in lower linguistic abilities. The present study addresses this issue. To do so, we investigated early speech perception in full and preterm infants from families classed as high or low SES. Seventy-six infants were followed longitudinally at 7.5, 9, 10.5 and 12 months of age. At each test point, three studies explored infants' phonetic, prosodic and phonotactic development respectively. Results showed no significant differences between the phonetic or the phonotactic development of the preterm and the full-term infants. However, a time-lag between preterm and full-term developmental timing for prosody was found. Socioeconomic status did not have a significant effect on prosodic development. Nonetheless, phonetic and phonotactic development was affected by SES, infants from lower SES showed phonetic discrimination of non-native contrast and a preference for high-probability sequences later than their more advantaged peers. Overall these results suggest that different constraints apply to the acquisition of different phonological subcomponents.
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- Oxford University Hospitals, NHS, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
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Saliba S, Gratier M, Filippa M, Devouche E, Esseily R. Fathers’ and Mothers’ Infant Directed Speech Influences Preterm Infant Behavioral State in the NICU. JOURNAL OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10919-020-00335-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Granier-Deferre C, Bassereau S, Ribeiro A, Jacquet AY, Decasper AJ. A melodic contour repeatedly experienced by human near-term fetuses elicits a profound cardiac reaction one month after birth. PLoS One 2011; 6:e17304. [PMID: 21383836 PMCID: PMC3044162 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2011] [Accepted: 01/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Human hearing develops progressively during the last trimester of gestation. Near-term fetuses can discriminate acoustic features, such as frequencies and spectra, and process complex auditory streams. Fetal and neonatal studies show that they can remember frequently recurring sounds. However, existing data can only show retention intervals up to several days after birth. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here we show that auditory memories can last at least six weeks. Experimental fetuses were given precisely controlled exposure to a descending piano melody twice daily during the 35(th), 36(th), and 37(th) weeks of gestation. Six weeks later we assessed the cardiac responses of 25 exposed infants and 25 naive control infants, while in quiet sleep, to the descending melody and to an ascending control piano melody. The melodies had precisely inverse contours, but similar spectra, identical duration, tempo and rhythm, thus, almost identical amplitude envelopes. All infants displayed a significant heart rate change. In exposed infants, the descending melody evoked a cardiac deceleration that was twice larger than the decelerations elicited by the ascending melody and by both melodies in control infants. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Thus, 3-weeks of prenatal exposure to a specific melodic contour affects infants 'auditory processing' or perception, i.e., impacts the autonomic nervous system at least six weeks later, when infants are 1-month old. Our results extend the retention interval over which a prenatally acquired memory of a specific sound stream can be observed from 3-4 days to six weeks. The long-term memory for the descending melody is interpreted in terms of enduring neurophysiological tuning and its significance for the developmental psychobiology of attention and perception, including early speech perception, is discussed.
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- Carolyn Granier-Deferre
- Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neuropsychologie Cognitives, CNRS-FRE 3292, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
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Granier-Deferre C, Ribeiro A, Jacquet AY, Bassereau S. Near-term fetuses process temporal features of speech. Dev Sci 2011; 14:336-52. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00978.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The relevance of the concept of nonshared environment to the study of environmental influences: A paradigmatic shift or just some gears slipping? Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00056247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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AbstractOne of the most important findings that has emerged from human behavioral genetics involves the environment rather than heredity, providing the best available evidence for the importance of environmental influences on personality, psychopathology, and cognition. The research also converges on the remarkable conclusion that these environmental influences make two children in the same family as different from one another as are pairs of children selected randomly from the population.The theme of the target article is that environmental differences between children in the same family (called “nonshared environment”) represent the major source of environmental variance for personality, psychopathology, and cognitive abilities. One example of the evidence that supports this conclusion involves correlations for pairs of adopted children reared in the same family from early in life. Because these children share family environment but not heredity, their correlation directly estimates the importance of shared family environment. For most psychological characteristics, correlations for adoptive “siblings” hover near zero, which implies that the relevant environmental influences are not shared by children in the same family. Although it has been thought that cognitive abilities represent an exception to this rule, recent data suggest that environmental variance that affects IQ is also of the nonshared variety after adolescence.The article has three goals: (1) To describe quantitative genetic methods and research that lead to the conclusion that nonshared environment is responsible for most environmental variation relevant to psychological development, (2) to discuss specific nonshared environmental influences that have been studied to date, and (3) to consider relationships between nonshared environmental influences and behavioral differences between children in the same family. The reason for presenting this article in BBS is to draw attention to the far-reaching implications of finding that psychologically relevant environmental influences make children in a family different from, not similar to, one another.
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Contributions of the biometrical approach to individual differences in personality measures. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00055965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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On the need for longitudinal evidence and multiple measures in behavioral-genetic studies of adult personality. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00056028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The unmapped methodological territory between one gene and many comprises some intriguing environments. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00055977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Why does human twin research not produce results consistent with those from nonhuman animals? Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00056211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Evolutionary hypotheses and behavioral genetic methods: Hopes for a union of two disparate disciplines. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00055990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Shared experience and similarity of personality: Positive data from Finnish and American twins. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x0005617x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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This article reviews the studies on functional deficits in the auditory cortex of congenitally deaf animals. It compares their results with psychophysical and imaging data obtained from prelingually deaf humans. The studies demonstrate that the development of the auditory cortex is affected by the absence of hearing experience. In humans, the restoration of hearing after congenital deafness shows a sensitive period of 4 years, whereas even within this sensitive period cortical plasticity is already decreasing with increasing age. The reasons for the sensitive period are developmental changes of synaptic plasticity, developmentally modified synaptogenesis and synaptic pruning as well as changes in connectivity of the auditory cortex. Absence of top-down interactions from higher order auditory areas is another cardinal reason for the sensitive period. All these mechanisms contribute to the decreasing capacity for cortical plasticity during postnatal development. From the developmental and neurophysiological point of view, an early identification of hearing loss is an important prerequisite for effective therapy.
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- AG Auditorische Neurophysiologie, Institut für Neurophysiologie und Pathophysiologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg.
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Sharma V, Nag TC, Wadhwa S, Roy TS. Stereological investigation and expression of calcium-binding proteins in developing human inferior colliculus. J Chem Neuroanat 2008; 37:78-86. [PMID: 19095058 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2008.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2008] [Revised: 09/24/2008] [Accepted: 11/07/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The mammalian inferior colliculus (IC) is a major relay nucleus in the auditory pathway. Prenatal development of the human IC has been inadequately studied. The present study reports the morphometric development and maturation of the human IC using unbiased stereology, in 18 aborted fetuses of various gestational ages (12-29 weeks) and two babies aged 40 postnatal days (PND) and 5 months (that died of postoperative complications). It also demonstrates the functional maturation of the IC by examining the expression of calcium-binding proteins--parvalbumin (PV) and calbindin (CB). There was a significant increase in the total number of neurons and glia from 18 weeks of gestation (WG). The glia and neuron volume increased significantly from 16 WG to 22 WG, respectively. The total volume of IC also increased significantly from 18 WG onwards. On the other hand, the number and volume of undifferentiated cell bodies across all ages decreased significantly. Expression of CB was concentrated in the dorsal cortex while that of PV was mainly confined to the central nucleus of the IC, possibly indicating an early segregation of parallel processing of information in the auditory pathways. Intense staining for CB in the soma and dendrites appeared earlier than that of the PV. The morphological maturation appeared to overlap the onset of functional maturation suggesting an activity-dependent mechanism in the development of IC.
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- Vikram Sharma
- Department of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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The developmental origins of the ability to hear have been the subject of much debate and speculation. Since time immemorial, there has been much anecdotal evidence that the fetus responds to sound. In contrast, until the late 19th Century, scientific evidence and opinion held that the newborn was deaf and only developed the ability to hear in the first weeks after birth. At the beginning of the 20th Century the prevailing scientific and clinical view changed and it was accepted that the newborn was able to hear at birth. This led to much speculation about, and limited experimental study of, when the individual first started to hear. Detailed study of the ontogency of auditory abilities had to wait until the 1980’s when scientific opinion regarding the abilities of the newborn changed and the ultrasound technology with which to observe the fetus in utero became widely available. Research thus commenced in earnest to investigate the response of the fetus to sound. Despite this increased interest in fetal hearing, experimental studies have concentrated upon the responsiveness to sound in late pregnancy and not on the developmental origine of auditory abilities. It is the aim of this review to examine the ontogenesis of hearing in the fetus.
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Bibas AG, Xenellis J, Michaels L, Anagnostopoulou S, Ferekidis E, Wright A. Temporal bone study of development of the organ of Corti: correlation between auditory function and anatomical structure. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology 2007; 122:336-42. [PMID: 17367561 DOI: 10.1017/s0022215107006548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To study the development of the organ of Corti in the human cochlea, and to correlate our findings with the onset of auditory function. MATERIAL AND METHODS Step sections of 81 human fetal temporal bones were studied, from eight weeks of gestation to full term. RESULTS By the end of the 10th week, the tectorial membrane primordium could be traced even in the most apical turns. Individual hair cells became identifiable at the basal turn at 14 weeks. At the same time, a small but well formed oval space was observed between the inner and outer hair cells in the basal turn. This does not correspond to the tunnel of Corti, as is erroneously quoted in the literature, as the individual pillar cells develop at later stages. Between 14 and 15 weeks, Hensen's cells were recognised for the first time. Individual pillar cells were identifiable at 17 weeks and the tunnel of Corti opened at 20 weeks. By 25 weeks, the cochlea had reached its adult size, but continued to develop until full term. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS A temporal coincidence of different developmental events is responsible for early fetal audition at 20 weeks, including growth of pillar cells, opening of the tunnel of Corti and regression of Kollicker's organ, with the subsequent formation of the inner spiral sulcus and then separation of the tectorial membrane. The fine structures of the organ of Corti continue to develop well after the 25th week, and this may well alter the mechanical properties of the vibrating parts of the cochlea, which may in turn account for the frequency shift observed in preterm infants. These changes will have to be taken into account in the development of prenatal hearing screening tests.
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- A G Bibas
- UCL Ear Institute, Royal Free & University College London Medical School, London, UK.
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Kral A, Tillein J, Heid S, Klinke R, Hartmann R. Cochlear implants: cortical plasticity in congenital deprivation. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2006; 157:283-313. [PMID: 17167917 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(06)57018-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Congenital auditory deprivation (deafness) leads to a dysfunctional intrinsic cortical microcircuitry. This chapter reviews these deficits with a particular emphasis on layer-specific activity within the primary auditory cortex. Evidence for a delay in activation of supragranular layers and reduction in activity in infragranular layers is discussed. Such deficits indicate the incompetence of the primary auditory cortex to not only properly process thalamic input and generate output within the infragranular layers, but also incorporate top-down modulations from higher order auditory cortex into the processing within primary auditory cortex. Such deficits are the consequence of a misguided postnatal development. Maturation of primary auditory cortex in deaf animals shows evidence of a developmental delay and further alterations in gross synaptic currents, spread of activation, and morphology of local field potentials recorded at the cortical surface. Additionally, degenerative changes can be observed. When hearing is initiated early in life (e.g., by chronic cochlear-implant stimulation), many of these deficits are counterbalanced. However, plasticity of the auditory cortex decreases with increasing age, so that a sensitive period for plastic adaptation can be demonstrated within the second to sixth months of life in the deaf cat. Potential molecular mechanisms of the existence of sensitive period are discussed. Data from animal research may be compared to electroencephalographic data obtained from cochlear-implanted congenitally deaf children. After cochlear implantation in humans, three phases of plastic adaptation can be observed: a fast one, taking place within the first few weeks after implantation, showing no sensitive period; a slower one, taking place within the first months after implantation (a sensitive period up to 4 years of age); and possibly a third, and the longest one, related to increasing activation of higher order cortical areas.
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- Laboratories of Auditory Neuroscience, Institute of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University of Hamburg School of Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.
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Sharma A, Dorman MF, Kral A. The influence of a sensitive period on central auditory development in children with unilateral and bilateral cochlear implants. Hear Res 2005; 203:134-43. [PMID: 15855038 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2004.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 346] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2004] [Accepted: 12/22/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We examined the longitudinal development of the cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP) in 21 children who were fitted with unilateral cochlear implants and in two children who were fitted with bilateral cochlear implants either before age 3.5 years or after age 7 years. The age cut-offs (<3.5 years for early-implanted and >7 years for late-implanted) were based on the sensitive period for central auditory development described in [Ear Hear. 23 (6), 532.] Our results showed a fundamentally different pattern of development of CAEP morphology and P1 cortical response latency for early- and late-implanted children. Early-implanted children and one child who received bilateral implants by age 3.5 years showed rapid development in CAEP waveform morphology and P1 latency. Late-implanted children showed aberrant waveform morphology and significantly slower decreases in P1 latency postimplantation. In the case of a child who received his first implant by age 3.5 years and his second implant after age 7 years, CAEP responses elicited by the second implant were similar to late-implanted children. Our results are consistent with animal models of central auditory development after implantation and confirm the presence of a relatively brief sensitive period for central auditory development in young children.
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- Anu Sharma
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.
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D'Elia A, Pighetti M, Vanacore F, Fabbrocini G, Arpaia L. Vibroacoustic stimulation in normal term human pregnancy. Early Hum Dev 2005; 81:449-53. [PMID: 15935921 DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2004.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2003] [Revised: 04/08/2004] [Accepted: 04/08/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of vibroacoustic stimulation (VAS) on fetal heart rate (FHR) in term human fetuses by computerized carditocography system. METHODS FHR was analyzed 20 min before and 30 min after vibroacoustic stimulation using the Oxford Sonicaid System 8002 for computerized FHR measurement. Recordings were made in 31 uncomplicated pregnancies at 36-42 weeks' gestation. RESULTS Vibroacustic stimulation of the fetus evoked a significant increase in all the parameters evaluated (number of fetal movements, of accelerations above 10 and 15 bpm, in high- and low-variability episodes, and in short-term variations). Concerning the effect of behavioural states on the response to VAS, some changes (FHR, high-variability episodes) occurred independently of behavioural states, while other parameters (accelerations >10 and 15 bpm: short-term variation) underwent statistically significant changes only for behavioural states 1F and 2F. CONCLUSIONS Our study supports the hypothesis of a significant fetal response in normal term pregnancy, as clearly shown by computerized cardiotocography. The immediate response occurred independently of behavioural states, although some differences were present (mainly for F1 and F2 states) if the evaluation was extended in time.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Federico II University, Via S. Pansini n. 5, 80131, Naples, Italy.
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Kral A, Tillein J, Heid S, Hartmann R, Klinke R. Postnatal Cortical Development in Congenital Auditory Deprivation. Cereb Cortex 2004; 15:552-62. [PMID: 15319310 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The study investigates early postnatal development of local field potentials (LFPs) in the primary auditory cortex of hearing and congenitally deaf cats. In hearing cats, LFPs elicited by electrical intracochlear stimulation demonstrated developmental changes in mid-latency range, including reductions in peak and onset latencies of individual waves and a maturation of their shape and latencies during the first 2 months of life. In long latency range (>80 ms), the P(1)/N(1) response appeared after the fourth week of life and further increased in amplitude and decreased in latency, reaching mature shapes between the fourth and sixth months after birth (p.n.). Cortical activated areas became increasingly smaller during the first 3 months of life, reaching mature values at the fourth month p.n. The layer-specific pattern of synaptic activity matured 4 months p.n. In congenitally deaf cats, the developmental pattern was different. The lowest cortical LFP thresholds were significantly smaller than in hearing controls, demonstrating a "hypersensitivity" to sensory inputs. The development of N(b) waves was delayed and altered and the long latency responses became smaller than in controls at the second and third months. The activated areas remained smaller than in controls until the third month, then they increased rapidly and exceeded the activated areas of age-matched controls. From the fourth month on, the activated areas decreased again and smaller synaptic currents were found in deaf cats than in controls. The presented data demonstrate that functional development of the auditory cortex critically depends on auditory experience.
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- Institute of Sensory Physiology & Neurophysiology, J.W.Goethe University School of Medicine, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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A growing body of evidence is available about the functioning of fetal sensory systems during gestation. This article aims at reviewing data concerning (i) the presence of potential sensory stimulation in the fetal milieu, (ii) the sequential functional development of the sensory systems and (iii) physiological and behavioral responses of fetuses to various types of stimulation. Human data are compared with data collected in other mammalian species. Most studies have investigated auditory and chemosensory (olfactory and gustatory) responsiveness of the fetus in the second half of gestation. They demonstrate that (i) motor and heart rate responsiveness depends on gestational age and characteristics of stimulation; (ii) fetal sensory experience has short- and long-term effects at morphological, functional and behavioral levels (for example transnatal learning). The clinical consequences of the fetal sensory functioning are developed.
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- Laboratoire Cognition et Développement, Université Paris V-CNRS (URA 2143), France
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Nara T, Goto N, Hamano S, Okada A. Morphometric development of the human fetal auditory system: inferior collicular nucleus. Brain Dev 1996; 18:35-9. [PMID: 8907340 DOI: 10.1016/0387-7604(95)00089-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The development of the human inferior collicular nucleus was studied on serial sections of the brains of 9 fetuses at 12-34 weeks of gestation and an adult of 63 years using an electronic planimeter with a computer. Morphometric analysis of the development of the inferior collicular nucleus showed that its development accelerates after 18 weeks of gestation in terms of the columnar volume and length, size of neurons and circularity ratio. Large-sized neurons 2-3 times the area of small-sized neurons appeared after 18 weeks of gestation. The ratio of large neurons to the total ranged between 3 and 6% in the inferior collicular nucleus. The development of the inferior collicular nucleus was similar to that of the ventral cochlear nucleus and the medial superior olivary nucleus.
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- Division of Neurology, Saitama Children's Medical Center, Japan
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Seebach BS, Intrator N, Lieberman P, Cooper LN. A model of prenatal acquisition of speech parameters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:7473-6. [PMID: 8052606 PMCID: PMC44423 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.16.7473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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An unsupervised neural network model inductively acquires the ability to distinguish categorically the stop consonants of English, in a manner consistent with prenatal and early postnatal auditory experience, and without reference to any specialized knowledge of linguistic structure or the properties of speech. This argues against the common assumption that linguistic knowledge, and speech perception in particular, cannot be learned and must therefore be innately specified.
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- B S Seebach
- Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
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The development of the human cochlear nucleus was studied in serial sections of the brain of 12 fetuses at 12-40 weeks of gestation, an infant at 2 months of age and an adult of 63 years using an electronic planimeter with a computer. Morphometric analysis of the development of the ventral cochlear nucleus showed that its development accelerates after 18 weeks of gestation in terms of columnar volume, columnar length, neuronal number and neuronal size.
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- T Nara
- Division of Neurology, Saitama Children's Medical Center, Japan
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- M C Busnel
- University of Paris V, URA CNRS 1294, France
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While many of the ideas presented concerning foetal learning and their implications for psychiatry are at present speculative, I would remind people of the words of Carmichael (1954): "a study of adult behaviour without consideration of its origin before birth is as incomplete as . . . the study of adult anatomy without reference to the embryology of the structures considered." It is folly to overlook the foetal period!
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- School of Psychology, Queen's University of Belfast
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Lecanuet JP, Granier-Deferre C, Busnel MC. Fetal cardiac and motor responses to octave-band noises as a function of central frequency, intensity and heart rate variability. Early Hum Dev 1988; 18:81-93. [PMID: 3224585 DOI: 10.1016/0378-3782(88)90045-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Accelerative and decelerative cardiac responses and motor responses (leg movements) of 37-40 weeks (G.A.) fetuses are analyzed as a function of the frequency of three octave-band noises (respectively centered at 500 Hz, 2000 Hz and 5000 Hz) and of their intensity level (100, 105, 110 dB SPL, ex utero), during high (HV) and low (LV) heart rate (HR) variability pattern states. In both states, increasing the frequency and/or the intensity of the acoustic stimulation: (i) increases the ratios and amplitudes of accelerations, and the motor response ratios, (ii) reduces deceleration ratios and motor response latencies. Cardiac and motor reactiveness are higher in HV than in LV with acceleration ratios always greater than motor ones. However, when a high intensity and/or frequency is used, the reactiveness differences between states disappears. Low intensity and/or frequency stimulation levels induce a majority of decelerations.
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- J P Lecanuet
- Laboratoire de Psycho-Biologie de l'Enfant, CNRS, UA315 41, Paris, France
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